07 May 2010

Cincinnati Bengals rookie Geno Atkins was selected as a fourth-round draft pick from Georgia. But that was after at least one team posed a rather curious question to the 6'1, 290lb defensive tackle. "The only unusual question I got was if I was straight or gay," Atkins told the Associated Press. "And that was about
it."

Atkins did not identify the team and Outsports' Cyd Ziegler suggests it's probably standard procedure: "Unfortunately, he didn’t say what his answer was. Either way, you have
to assume it’s not just one team asking, or that Atkins was the only one
asked.

And let's add that it's to Atkins' credit that he saw the question about his sexuality as "unusual"... and publicly said so.